Poor service on the Hope Valley line again today. In fact it's not been a service at all as far as most potential users were concerned. Only 5 of the supposedly hourly calls at Dore all day, see RTT;
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr
OR/to/gb-nr:MAN/2024-07-07/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=pax-calls&order=actual&toc=NT
If you got where you were going would you get back by train? Maybe, but when?
So the group of pilgrims heading for Padley Chapel (see below) at Grindleford walked back home and got out their cars;
https://hallam-diocese.com/pilgrimage/padley-annual-interdiocesan-pilgrimage/
Not before they'd seen the CIS screens
All appeared to have already bought tickets online before leaving home. A lady speaking with an air of authority told her friends the train they planned to catch had been cancelled due to a train crash! What?
CIS leaves users to fill the gaps and she had - speaking possibly truer than she realised!! Service cancelled due to a train cr......... The service certainly had crashed. You have to laugh or you'd cry.
*The Padley Story
The year of 1588 was a dark one for Catholicism in England. It was High Treason for any priest ordained abroad to be in the Kingdom, and anyone harbouring such priests was liable to be put to death.
As fears of a Spanish Catholic invasion grew, persecution of recusants (people who refused to recognise the Queen's supreme religious authority in England) was increasing. In the early morning of 12 July 1588, Padley Manor, the residence of the recusant John Fitzherbert was raided. Two travelling priests – Nicholas Garlick and Robert Ludlam – were staying overnight. The priests and everyone else in the Hall were arrested. Garlick and Ludlam along with another priest Richard Simpson, were brutally executed in Derby a fortnight later.
An annual Pilgrimage to Padley in honour of the martyrs began in 1898. In 1931 Mgr. Charles Payne of the Diocese of Nottingham bought the property and restored the building which, due to boundary changes, is now owned by the Diocese of Hallam. In 1934 the altar stone, which had been hidden by the Fitzherbert family shortly before their arrest was discovered buried in the garden. It was restored to its rightful place in what would have been the domestic chapel of the house and to its rightful place in a story of constancy and of those who bravely kept the light of their faith burning through the dark centuries.
www.bbc.co.uk